Congress quietly extends a broad emergency economic power for one more year
S. 1452 — A bill to extend certain authorities under the Defense Production Act of 1950. · Filed by Tim Scott (R-SC) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Apr 10, 2025 · Referred to committee
Your members of Congress
Enter a ZIP to see where your representative and both senators stood on this bill.
Looked up on this device — your ZIP is never stored on our servers.
What it does
This bill extends a Defense Production Act authority by one year, from September 30, 2025 to September 30, 2026. The specific authority being extended is Section 717(a), which the bill does not quote or define here — that definition lives in the existing statute. Without access to what Section 717(a) actually authorizes, the civic effect cannot be fully assessed from this text alone.
Why we flagged it
The bill is a one-line technical amendment extending an existing statutory authority by one year. It is a routine procedural extension with no new policy content.
What the text implies
- The bill does not state what Section 717(a) authorizes, so readers cannot assess whether the extension serves public interest or private benefit without consulting the underlying statute.
- One-year extensions are common for authorities that Congress wishes to review or sunset periodically; this extension may signal either routine renewal or deliberate deferral of a policy decision.
- The Defense Production Act grants the President broad emergency economic powers; extending any section without public debate on its use may reduce legislative oversight.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
The bill's effect on ordinary citizens depends entirely on what Section 717(a) authorizes. If it grants emergency economic powers that protect supply chains or public welfare, extension is likely net_benefit; if it grants powers used for industrial favoritism or corporate subsidy, extension is net_cost. The text provides no basis to judge.
Named in the bill
Defense Production Act of 1950, Section 717(a), Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- Apr 10, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Apr 10, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 2 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $228,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 26 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Tim Scott, the sponsor, reported $214,300 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International — $228,000 on 2 filings
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 17, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (173 characters) on Jun 8, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 17, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
“Congress quietly extends a broad emergency economic power for one more year” QuorumCivic. https://share.quorumcivic.app/bill/119/s1452 Report an error
The week in bills
One email, Sunday: what Congress passed, what it changed, and who paid.
One link arrives to confirm the address. It is used for this email and nothing else, and every issue carries an unsubscribe link.